The space environment of Io and Europa

F Bagenal, V Dols - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Galilean moons play major roles in the giant magnetosphere of Jupiter. At the same
time, the magnetospheric particles and fields affect the moons. The impact of …

Energetic particles and acceleration regions over Jupiter's polar cap and main aurora: A broad overview

BH Mauk, G Clark, GR Gladstone… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Previous Juno mission event studies revealed powerful electron and ion acceleration, to
100s of kiloelectron volts and higher, at low altitudes over Jupiter's main aurora and polar …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Jupiter's magnetosphere and aurorae observed by the Juno spacecraft during its first polar orbits

JEP Connerney, A Adriani, F Allegrini, F Bagenal… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The Juno spacecraft acquired direct observations of the jovian magnetosphere and auroral
emissions from a vantage point above the poles. Juno's capture orbit spanned the jovian …

On the relation between auroral morphologies and compression conditions of Jupiter's magnetopause: Observations from Juno and the Hubble Space Telescope

ZH Yao, B Bonfond, D Grodent, E Chané… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Jupiter displays the most powerful auroral emissions in our solar system, which result from
strong energy dissipation in Jupiter's surrounding space environment. Although mass and …

Jupiter's low‐altitude auroral zones: Fields, particles, plasma waves, and density depletions

AH Sulaiman, BH Mauk, JR Szalay… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno spacecraft's polar orbits have enabled direct sampling of Jupiter's low‐altitude
auroral field lines. While various data sets have identified unique features over Jupiter's …

How Jupiter's unusual magnetospheric topology structures its aurora

B Zhang, PA Delamere, Z Yao, B Bonfond, D Lin… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Jupiter's bright persistent polar aurora and Earth's dark polar region indicate that the planets'
magnetospheric topologies are very different. High-resolution global simulations show that …

The tails of the satellite auroral footprints at Jupiter

B Bonfond, J Saur, D Grodent… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The electromagnetic interaction between Io, Europa, and Ganymede and the rotating
plasma that surrounds Jupiter has a signature in the aurora of the planet. This signature …

In situ observations connected to the Io footprint tail aurora

JR Szalay, B Bonfond, F Allegrini… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno spacecraft crossed flux tubes connected to the Io footprint tail at low Jovian
altitudes on multiple occasions. The transits covered longitudinal separations of …

Jupiter's aurora observed with HST during Juno orbits 3 to 7

D Grodent, B Bonfond, Z Yao, JC Gérard… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A large set of observations of Jupiter's ultraviolet aurora was collected with the Hubble
Space Telescope concurrently with the NASA‐Juno mission, during an eight‐month period …